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New Delhi, Jan 6 (IANS) Dentist couple Rajesh and Nupur Talwar are to face trial for the sensational murder of their teenage daughter Aarushi, who was found dead in their house in Noida, a Delhi suburb, on May 16, 2008.

The Talwars had approached the Supreme Court to overrule the verdict of a lower court that ordered the Central Bureau of Investigation (CBI) to make them the main accused in the case.

A bench of justices A.K. Ganguly and J.S. Khehar said there was nothing wrong in the magistrate’s order taking cognisance against them and putting them on trial.

“We dismiss the appeal,” the bench said.

The Supreme Court also said that its decision does not reflect any judgment on their alleged involvement in the teen’s death.

An upset Rajesh Talwar, reacting to the judgment, told NDTV: “There is no justice in this country.”

The apex court hoped the trial will be expedited.

The couple’s counsel Rebecca John said : “There is nothing beyond this. They have to face the trial.”

“All the legal battles have ended as the Supreme Court is the apex body,” John told IANS.

Fourteen-year-old Aarushi, a student of Delhi Public School, was found with her throat slit in her parents’ Noida apartment.

The family’s domestic help, Hemraj, who was initially suspected to be the prime suspect, was also found killed on the apartment’s terrace a day later.

The murders grabbed national headlines and every development was followed keenly - the charges, counter-charges and court drama involving the parents and investigators. But, the mystery remains far from solved.

Rajesh Talwar was arrested and kept behind bars for 50 days in connection with the crime but was later let off because of lack of evidence against him. The CBI then arrested Krishna and two other domestic helps in the neighbourhood, Raj Kumar and Vijay Mandal, who too were let out on bail later.

In December 2010, the CBI filed a closure report in the case before the special court in Ghaziabad, but stated that it had circumstantial evidence against the Talwars in Aarushi’s murder.

The probe agency told the court that Rajesh Talwar was their prime suspect in the double murder, but he cannot be chargesheeted because of “insufficient evidence”.

However, Talwar approached court against the closure, demanding further investigation. The court too rejected the closure report, and in a dramatic twist, summoned both the parents to face trial, and directed the CBI to prosecute them.

Talwar’s then approached the apex court.